“This 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing was Gable’s car, from that happy delivery day in 1955 until the star’s sudden death of a heart attack on November 16, 1960. He’d finished the grueling shoot of Arthur Miller’s Western “The Misfits,” costarring Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift, just two weeks earlier. The Benz had been with him on the Nevada set. Cinematographer Doc Kaminsky, hired to make a behind-the-scenes documentary, remembers racing Gable and the Gullwing across the desert floor. “He had a Gullwing Mercedes and I had a brand-new Austin-Healey at the time,” Kaminsky told the Reno News & Review. “Clark was an excellent driver, and we’d go blasting off over the Geiger Grade. And this was in the 1960s, remember, so no speed limits.” Gable and the Gullwing helped Kaminsky bust limits with the ladies, too. “One day, I was going with a girl downtown and I pulled up to a traffic light,” Kaminsky told the paper. “Clark Gable pulls up next to me in his Gullwing and says, ‘Hi, Doc. How’s it going?’ And the girl I was with, her teeth fell out. She says, 'Was that Clark Cable?’ 'Oh, yeah. I’m working with him on a project. ’” Only weeks later Gable was gone—the victim, many said, of having overtaxed his hard-living, 59-year-old body by doing his own stunts in that final film (“How do you find your way back in the dark?” asks Monroe’s Roslyn Taber at the movie’s close. “Just head for that big star straight on,” Gable’s Gay Langland replies. “It’ll take us right home”). Gable’s body was laid to rest alongside that of his beloved third wife, actress Carole Lombard, killed in a 1942 plane crash while returning home from a war-bond campaign. Four months later, Gable’s widow, Kay, gave birth to his one and only child, son John Clark.